NCAA Tournament
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Sycamores Stay Alive, Down Western Michigan
Diaz Homers Again as Indiana State Earns 6-4 Win; Return Date with Illinois Indiana State was never going down *that* easy. One day after the offense all but disappeared in a 4-1 loss to Illinois, the Sycamores won their elimination game in the Lexington Regional Saturday, defeating Western Michigan, 6-4. Indiana State (43-14) earned a Continue reading
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Indiana State Falls to Illinois; Must Win Out in Lexington
Cutts, Hayden Still Available as Sycamores Face Western Michigan Saturday The road will be hard now for the Indiana State Sycamores, but it isn’t impossible. The Sycamores fell to Illinois, 4-1, in the Lexington Regional on Friday evening, moving Indiana State to the loser’s bracket where it will play an elimination game Saturday afternoon against Continue reading
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Deverman Shines on Regional Stage, Pitches Purple Aces Past Pirates
UE to the Winner’s Bracket in Greenville After 4-1 Win over 1-seed ECU Of course, Kip Fougerousse homered. Of course, Evansville played stellar defense. And of course, Missouri Valley Conference Freshman of the Year Kenton Deverman threw 8 outstanding innings, giving up just 1 run on 3 hits with 4 strikeouts on 98 pitches (4.08 Continue reading
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Greenville Regional: Aces, Purple and Otherwise, the Story
Top Starters for UE, ECU, Wake Forest, and VCU Have All Been Excellent In a season where the Purple Aces found their new ace, Evansville will find 3 other aces waiting for them when they begin NCAA Regional play in Greenville, N.C., against top-seed and 14th-ranked East Carolina at noon Central on Friday. As the Continue reading
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Lexington Regional: Who Gets Enough Pitching to Advance?
Indiana State Led the Valley With a 4.61 ERA With the hitting we’re going to see from all 4 teams in the Lexington Regional, it’s no secret that the final verdict on who wins the regional and advances on to Supers is going to lie with the pitching, both from an effectiveness standpoint as well Continue reading
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Lexington Regional: Indiana State Faces a Trio of High-Scoring Teams with Differing Styles
Indiana State’s Power an Improvement Over ’23 Super Regional Team If you said before the season that Indiana State would find pitchers woh would at least be as strong on the mound as 2023 starting aces Connor Fenlong and Matt Jachec, I probably would have believed you, given how the school has produced quality pitching Continue reading
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Inside the Numbers: UE’s Prolific Offense vs. the Greenville Regional Field
UE, Host East Carolina Joined by Wake Forest, VCU Evansville made a long trek up a big mountain to finally get back to the NCAA Regionals for the first time in 18 years. But they didn’t arrive quietly. Evansville (35-23) has made noise all season, lacing 150 doubles which is second in the country behind Continue reading
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Committee Sends Indiana State to Lexington; Evansville to Greenville for Regionals
State Goes from Projected Host to 2-seed in #2 National Seed Regional “Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.” – Bill Walton (RIP, Big Red). The now late, great Bill Walton was right, you know. No one at a young age is perfect. Not even high-level college baseball players. Continue reading
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Indiana State’s College World Series Dream Ends as TCU Sweeps Super Regional
It wasn’t the way the Indiana State Sycamores wanted this insane season to end, but the journey will be one to remember and appreciate. The Sycamores fell, 6-4, to the TCU Horned Frogs in Game 2 of the Terre Haute Super Regional at Fort Worth Saturday, as TCU swept the best-of-3 series and advanced to Continue reading
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TCU 1 Win Away from Omaha After Downing Sycamores, 4-1
In reality, the Indiana State Sycamores played really well in today’s 4-1 loss to TCU in Fort Worth, in the first game of the Terre Haute/Fort Worth Super Regional best-of-3. Unfortunately, “really well,” isn’t going to be good enough to beat this TCU team, one that’s now 18-2 in its last 20 games and which Continue reading
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Ed Morgans is a Valley grad (UE ’95) and a huge college baseball fan. With no official MVC site for baseball, I’m trying to cover it as best I can from central Pennsylvania. Doing my best to shine a light on a conference full of great baseball. Thanks for reading! – Ed
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